ALLMedicine™ Bunion Center

May 4th, 2022 - There is an unmet demand for surgical services in Ontario. The situation worsens as the population ages(9). Ontario healthcare costs account for a staggering 40% of the provincial budget(1).Provincial budget deficits mean an influx of healthcare r...

Apr 3rd, 2022 - Fusion of the first metatarsophalangeal joint has been used by foot and ankle surgeons as a reproducible and useful means of treating end-stage arthritis of the great toe. However, the overall utility and successful outcomes of this procedure have...

Mar 31st, 2022 - Laboratory Studies Standard preoperative hematology tests should be ordered. Investigation of arthropathy or diabetes also may be necessary. Cultures may be obtained for infected lesions. More accurate bacteriologic diagnoses of infected lesions a...

Mar 31st, 2022 - Practice Essentials The term tailor's bunion (a synonym for bunionette) initially described an acquired lesion that caused chronic pain and swelling over the lateral aspect of the fifth metatarsal (MT) head. These lesions often were present on tai...

Mar 30th, 2022 - Patients with hallux valgus often develop secondary hammertoe deformities of the lesser toes. Operative management of bunions with hammertoe can be more extensive; however, it is unclear whether this affects patient-reported outcomes. The aim of t...

May 4th, 2022 - There is an unmet demand for surgical services in Ontario. The situation worsens as the population ages(9). Ontario healthcare costs account for a staggering 40% of the provincial budget(1).Provincial budget deficits mean an influx of healthcare r...

Mar 24th, 2021 - Introduction: Rehabilitation plans after hallux valgus/bunion surgery is varied From a patient's perspective, full weight bearing is paramount for quality of life and return to work/study No high-level study showing the optimal time to resume full...

Jul 15th, 2019 - Forefoot surgery includes bunion surgery and similar reconstructive bone cutting surgery and is very painful. Local anaesthetic nerve blocks have been used for many years to help alleviate pain following this surgery. The present study aims to com...

Jul 20th, 2018 - The FASTFORWARDTM Bunion Correction system has been cleared by the United States Food and Drug Administration for sale. This study is to investigate the clinical outcome of MedShape FASTFORWARDTM Bunion Correction system in treating hallux valgus ...

Apr 28th, 2014 - This is a randomized (study drug assigned by chance like flipping a coin), double-blind (neither physician nor patient knows the name of the assigned drug), placebo-controlled, parallel-group, multicenter study to evaluate the efficacy and safety ...

Aug 10th, 2020 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the intravenous (IV) opioid oliceridine (Olinvyk) for the management of moderate to severe acute pain in adults who require an IV opioid and for whom alternative treatments fail. The FDA's Ane...

Apr 21st, 2016 - The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee voted yesterday to recommend premarket approval of the Cartiva Synthetic Cartilage Implant for use in patients wit...

Nov 2nd, 2011 - The Problem A 74-year-old female with a history of breast cancer, hypertension, and impaired fasting glucose presents to you for blood pressure recheck. She reports a several-month history of left "great toe" pain.

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ACUTE GOUT FLARES: PAINFUL, UNPREDICTABLE, HIGHLY LIKELY TO RECUR Acute flares of gouty arthritis are characterized by warmth, swelling, redness, and often severe pain. Pain frequently begins in the middle of the night or early morning.